The author summarizes the political education given to troops during World War II. (DE)

Techniques for teaching elementary students about relationships between people and governments are explored. (DE)

Educational reforms since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

The article criticizes a number of assumptions about children and about education, among them the tendency to categorize children as bright or dull based on imperfect evidence, and the adherence to rigid views of one or another educational expert. (CD)

This experiment demonstrated that 12-month-old monkeys reared in social isolation developed appropriate species-typical behavior through the use of adaptation, self pacing of visual input and exposure to younger "therapist" monkeys. A critical period of socialization is not indicated in the rhesus monkey. (GO)

Investigates the relationship between the amount of learning which occurs in children during home television viewing and the presence of parental interaction during this period and concludes that parental interaction enhances incidental learning. (MH)

Explores the use of the concept of inhibition in moral philosophy. Argues that there are strong practical reasons for basing moral teaching on simple moral rules and for inculcating inhibitions about breaking these rules. (Author)

Characterizes Eastern European political reforms in the 1960s and 1970s and predicts political economic developments for the 1990s. Trends within Soviet leadership are analyzed in light of their relevance for developments within Eastern Europe. (DB)

Psychotherapeutic work with lesbians is confounded by both sexist and heterosexist factors. In this paper, three aspects of women's socialization--self-concept, feminine sex-role behavior, and sexuality--which have particular implications for lesbians, are discussed in terms of their implications in therapy. (Author/WI)

Studies on the differences in socialization experiences of boys and girls are reviewed. The effects of increasingly common maternal employment on this process are considered. (SJL)

This article presents some of a therapist's experiences with children who are victims of racism. Ways in which the parents of these children have acquired certain attitudes as a result of socialization in a society that disparages them are revealed. These attitudes are shown to impair their efforts to help their children. (Author/MC)

Outlines a dual model of cognitive development in which patterns of cultural stimulation are reconstructed in the child's cognition. It provides a mathematical language for the representation of structures in sensorimotor actions and verbal explanations as they occur in the context of the everyday life of the child. (Author/RH)

This investigation studied the influences of television's behavioral models on institutionalized, emotionally disturbed children between the ages of 6 and 11. Investigated were children's perceptions and judgments of right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. (SE)

Presents an interview with Urie Bronfenbrenner in which he discusses the school's role as one of breaking down barriers between itself, the community, and parents to help American children learn to be more caring. (JMB)